About J & G Meakin
Earthenware manufacturers of domestic tableware at Hanley , Stoke-on-Trent , England. J & G Meakin was a prominent Staffordshire pottery company which played a significant role in the global ceramics market. Known for producing affordable yet stylish tableware they were considered for a long time as having one of the largest and best equipped potteries in the world. They became a key exporter of British pottery.
Its success lay in balancing mass production techniques with appealing design, making its products widely accessible across Europe, the Americas, and the Commonwealth. The potter James Meakin had four sons who were also all potters - see more on the Meakin Brothers . The father, James (b.1807 d.1852), started potting around 1846 as an earthenware and china manufacturer at the New Town Pottery, High Street, Longton .
In 1850 he moved his business to works in Cannon Street, Hanley . In 1851, due to ill health, his sons James (age 21) and George (age 19) took over the business. The brothers kept on the Cannon Street works for a short time, but by 1852 they took over another pottery in Market Street, Hanley where, during a period of seven years they built up a profitable business.
